Mikhail Baranov - Justice for Journalists

Mikhail Baranov

Affiliated media: Video blogger

Incident date: June 3, 2020

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)
  • Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Nabat

Location: Russia, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Obluchye

Additional information:

Video blogger Baranov was detained by police in Obluchye, where he recently made a film «Far East. The decline of Putinism”. The police filed a protocol on the public demonstration of the Nazi symbols. Swastika was allegedly found on blogger’s private page.

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